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ATTORNEY Patented Oct. 15, 1929 UNITED STATES PATENT oFFi cE- CASKET HEADREST Application filed December 14, 1926. Serial No. 154,683.

V ple and inexpensive head rest by which the embodying the invention;

upper portion of a body within a casket may be conveniently placed in appropriate position.

Another object of the invention is to pro vide a head rest which is capable of being folded to a flat compact position.

The invention further consists in the several features hereinafter set forth and more particularly defined by the annexed claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Fig. 1 is a fragmentary longitudinal sectional view through a casket equipped with a head rest Fig. 2 is an end elevation of the head rest in Operative position;

. Fig. 3 isa detail side elevation of the head rest in folded position; and

Fig. 4 is atop plan view of the head rest in folded position.

In these drawings, the numeral 10 designates a casket having an end wall 11 and provided with the usual mattress 12 and pillow 12 on Which the body 13 rests. The head rest of this invention comprises a base frame 14- adapted to lie on the top of the mattress adjacent the end wall 11, and having pivotally mounted thereon an inclinable head-receiving frame 15 and a pair of oppositely disposed inclinable shoulderreceiving frames 16. The base frame 14 consists of a rectangular wire loop 17 having secured thereon, as by welding, a central longitudinal wire bar 18 and a plurality of trans verse wire bars 19. The head-receiving frame 15 consists of a U-shaped wire bar 20, rectangular in shape, having secured thereto, as by welding, a plurality of longitudinal wire bars 21 and a plurality of transverse wire bars 22, the bars 21 and 22 being also secured together at their intersections. The ends of the U-shaped Wire bar and the corresponding ends of the longitudinal wire bars 21 are provided with aligned loops 23 which pivotally engage one of the intermediate transverse wire bars 19 of the base frame 14. Each shoulder-receiving frame 16 consists of a U-shaped wire bar 2 1, rectangular in shape, having a longitudinal wire bar 25 and a transverse wire bar 26 secured thereon, as by welding. The ends of the U-shaped wire bar 24 and the corresponding end of the longitudinal wire bar 25 are provided with aligned loops 27 which pivotally engage the central longitudinal wire bar 18 of the base frame at that portion of the bar 18 not covered by the head-receiving frame 20. WVhen these several frames are in folded condition, as seen in Fig. 3, the free end of the head receiving frame 20 lies adjacent one end of the base frame 14 and the free ends of the shoulder-receiving frames 16 lie adjacent the sides of the base frame 14: near the opposite end of the base frame.

In order to elevate the head-receiving frame 15 about its pivotal mountings 23, the free end of the frame has pivotally secured thereon the looped end portions 28-01 a reversely-bent wire standard 29. i The standard 29 is provided with a saddled free end 30 which is adapted to engage in anyone of severalnotches formed in a sinuous wire bar 31 having a saddled free end 34 adapted to en gage in any one of several notches formed in a sinuous wire bar 35 secured, as by welding,

to one of the transverse wire bars 19 of the base frame 1 1. The wire standards 33 may be conveniently restrained'from shifting on the end portions of the shoulder-receiving frames by engaging the looped end portions 32 of each standard on opposite sides of the longitudinal wire bar 25 of each frame, and

each of the wire standards 29 and may include a tie-bar 36.

The head rest embodying the invention is placed in the casket 10 adjacent the end wall 11 and may be so placed in the flat folded condition indicated in Fig. The pillow 12 is then placed in the casket to cover the headrest, and the body 13 then laid upon the mattress and pillow with the head above the head-receiving frame 15 and the shoulders.

above the shoulder-receiving frames 16.

The head-receiving frame 15 is then swung upwardly by inserting the hand between the end wall of the casket and the pillow and lifting the free end of the frame, and the standard 29 then falls by gravity into successive notches of the sinuous wire bar 35. When the headreceiving frame is at an appropriate elevation, the hand is released and the frame then remains supported in adjusted position by the standard 29. In a similar manner, the shoulder-receiving frames 16 may be elevated to place the shoulders at appropriate positions. When it is thereafter necessary to readjust the position of the body for View, this may be accomplished quickly and conveniently in a similar manner without unduly disturbing the body.

The standards 29 and 83 are so formed that they straddle the sinuous wire racks with which they co-operate when the head rest is placed in the folded position of Figs. 3 and 4, thereby affording a. relatively compact construction.

l/Vhat I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A casket head rest, comprising a base member, a head-receiving member pivotally mounted thereon and movable to different angular positions, and a pair of shoulderreceiving members pivotally mounted on said base member laterally of said head-receiving member for movement to different angular positions, said shoulder-receiving members bein mounted to swing in a plane at right angles to the plane of movement of said head-receiving member and co-operating with said head-receiving member to adjustably elevate a body thereon.

2. A. casket head rest, comprising a base frame including intermediately disposed longitudinally and transversely extending members, a headreceiving frame pivotally mounted on said transverselyextending member, a pair of shoulder-receiving frames each pivotally mounted on said longitudinally extending member for independent movement and lying beyond said head-receiving frame, and means carried by said base frame for adjustably angularly positioning said head-receiving frame and said shoulder-receiving frames to adjustably elevate a body on said frames.

A casket head rest, comprising a wire base frame, a Wire body-receiving frame pivotally mounted thereon, a standard member pivotally mounted on said body-receiving frame, and a sinuous wire secured to said base frame and forminp a notched rack receiving the lower end OI said standard member thereon to retain said body-receiving frame in ustably elevated position.

a. A casket head rest, comprising a base member adapted to be placed in a casket, a headreceiving member pivotally mounted thereon and movable to different angular positions, a pair of laterally adjacent shoulder-reeeiving members having a connection with said base member and each pivotally' mounted at their adjacent portions for independent movement to and placement at different angular positions and co-operating with said head-receiving member to adjustably elevate a body thereon, and means car ried by said base member for retaining said head-receiving member and shoulder-receiving members in adjusted positions.

5. A casket head rest, comprising a base member adapted to be placed in a casket, a head-receiving member pivotally mounted on said base member for movement to different angular positions, a pair of laterally adjacent shoulder-receiving members each pivotally mounted on said base member for independent movement to different angular position and co-operating with said head-receiving member to adj ustably elevate a body thereon, and means having a detachable connection with said base member for supporting said head-receiving member and said shoulder-receiving members in adjusted position. I

6. A casket head rest, comprising a base member adapted to be placed in a casket, a plurality of body-receiving members pivotally mounted on said base member for independent movement, and means having a separable engagement with said base member for angularly positioning said body-receiving members at different elevations above said base member to support different parts of the upper portions of a body.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

RALPH G. FEERICK. 

